An article on identity, language learning and social change that reviews the poststructuralist theories of language, power and identity looking into new theories of language learning.
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Excellent piece pulling together theories, making them understandable and relating them to current practice and people. Possibly only missing Lave's concept of peripheral participation and community of practice. I have always assumed an affinity between the idea of a journey from periphery to centre of a community of practice and that journey across a ZPD
hackr on Umair Haque, theses: social web is bad: "On the demand side, relationship inflation creates beauty contest effects, where, just as every judge votes for the contestant they think the others will like the best, people transmit what they think others want. On the supply side, relationship inflation creates popularity contest effects, where people (and artists) strive for immediate, visceral attention-grabs — instead of making awesome stuff."
++++ ein ziemlich langer text, der sicher konstrovers zu diskutieren wäre (grundthese: privacy ist nicht nur ein privates gut eines individuums, sondern ein gemeinschaftliches, soziales gut; wenn das im web erodiert, hat das folgen für alle) und auf jeden fall ein must-read ist, um hier weiterzudiskutiere
Kathrin Passig on filter/recommendation systems und individualisierung/personalisierung + microcontentisierung und neue verkonglomatisierung + zersplitterung von "person" im netz (gute tweeps may be schlechte blogger, flickrees etc.) +++ (das glaser zitat ist von hier: http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/2173605_0_8264_-die-leichtigkeit-der-digitalen-materie-kultur-zerstreut-sich-im-digitalen.html , reaktion u.a. hier: http://faz-community.faz.net/blogs/crtl-verlust/archive/2010/05/04/links-zum-kontrollverlust-ii.aspx)
sehr sehr wirrer text von bolz über google=böse, privat/öffentlich mit ein paar eh-klars und ein paar rosinen: "Und wenn der Suchraum groß genug ist, kann man Suchen nicht mehr von Kreativität unterscheiden."
digiom on selbsttechniken/identiy im web2.0: Es ist ja nicht einfach so, dass das ganze Web 2.0 und Social Web einen großen, technophilen Identitätskult darstellt, es leiden in eben solchem Ausmaße die BeobachterInnen, die einen solchen feststellen, unter den Folgen einer zugerichteten Perspektive, die vor allem die identitätsgestalterischen Aspekte ins Auge fasst. Aus dieser Perspektive wird jeder Videoblogger zum Selbstdarsteller, jede Microbloggerin zur Narzistin, als wären die Selbsttechnologien erst im Web 2.0 erfunden worden, als würde nicht jede unserer Äußerungen und Aktivitäten Zeugnis von uns selbst ablegen, uns zu einem Selbstverhältnis zwingen.
klaus walter stellt anlässlich janelle monáe die these auf, dass 2010 im pop identitäten endlich so richtig gebrochen werden und schwarz/weiß frau/mann nichts mehr zur sache tut
mspro will channels statt circles bei google+ (einerseits ja, andererseits immer noch zu kompliziert, konversationen werden schwierig weil unklar ist, wer was gelesen hat oder haben könnte, also worauf aufbaubar ist)
link to the post with discussion started by Robert Scoble arising from Google's real-name policy, which started a long conversation, pro and con, about the use of names on tinternet
Traditional methods for protecting community from the effects of scale and poor behavior are now manifestly unfeasible. Raising barriers to entry, relying on the assumption that users will maintain only one registered account, and placing faith in the ability of admins and user moderation to reproduce a forum's organic culture are all easily circumvented, gamed, and/or ineffective when faced with the problems of scale. Moreover, they tend to reinforce self-destructive behaviors, by increasing returns to the most persistent rather than the most constructive, reinforcing groupthink, and providing ample targets for trolling and griefing. This article attempts to fundamentally rethink what constitutes community and society on the web, and what possibilities exist for their maintenance and reconstruction in the face of scale and malicious users. The recommendations reached, after analyzing the weaknesses of the web forums we all know and love
"Algorithms are what make our site run, (and) such a unique place to shop. It's through algorithms that we're able to do things like make recommendations and tell you what customers who bought this item also bought," said Amazon spokeswoman Patty Smith.
when you interact with a service online or by phone there may be software in action that mediates how you experience the service: by sorting you. Live in a high income postcode? Get routed to a sales person more quickly than if your IP address makes you look as if you come from a less promising area. On record as an awkward customer or "time-waster"? Then wait in the queue.
we were all hoping that OpenID would end up being the sum of all (good) parts. Unfortunately, it became the opposite: an oddity not true to any of the visions, and far, very far, from being an aggregate of the best. Worse, its evolution has disintegrated into multiple incompatible architectures all of which have plenty of trees, but no forest. None of the original visionaries are actively involved in it any more, and it shows.
D. Davis, T. Yuen, и M. Berland. Proceedings of the 45th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education, стр. 325--330. New York, NY, ACM, (2014)